/lit/ - Literature

>>9702841
Biopolitics is basically the recipe for constant war. It derives from economic inequality, which is a telos of its own. Arguably what Kant was out to bring a halt to...
>but you keep siding with Land you dip. pick a team
>yeah
>team theology maybe

>>9702533
So the thing to be learned from the Greeks is that the mastery of war can only be achieved by de-escalating the stakes such that war becomes a game.
>pacifism leads to engaging in a war to end all wars (declaring holy war on Ares himself) which, as Schmitt pointed out, paradoxically leads to a war of extermination because the very stakes are eternal peace itself. If you declare war on Ares he is existentially implored to respond in kind. The key is to respect the god of war while also mastering war as a tool and you won't be destroyed by it.
I like this. Name the Stakes. Abstain - if you can - from Total War.

It's hard tho. It's hard to get a referee people can agree on, because usually the war is fought over exactly that...